The Oceanside City Council has approved a $2.3 million payment to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to advance the San Luis Rey River Flood Control Project. This funding will support geotechnical investigations, which may lead to design changes and increased costs for the project.
Oceanside ’s City Council has approved an additional $2.3 million payment to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the next phase of work in the long-running San Luis Rey River Flood Control Project. The money authorized Dec. 18 will enable the Corps to complete ongoing below-ground geotechnical investigations by March 2025, according to a staff report provided to the council.
The new information could result in recommendations for design changes that would increase the overall cost of the project along with the share of the expenses that the city is obligated to pay, the report states. The most recent estimate, prepared in October 2024, placed the total construction costs at $230 million, according to a financial summary provided to the city by the Corps. About $127 million of the total had been paid at the time. Oceanside has agreed to pay 25% of the costs, or a little less than $58 million under the current estimate, and so far the city has paid almost half of that amount. The federal government is responsible for the rest of the money, doled out in congressional appropriations. Authorized by Congress in 1970, the project is intended to clear sediment, debris and vegetation from hundreds of acres in the river channel and to armor some sections of the riverbed with concrete and rock walls or levees. Construction began in 1990, and the levees that line parts of the channel were finished in 2000. The goal is to protect low-lying properties along more than seven miles of the river, between the Pacific Ocean and the College Boulevard bridge, from flood damage in anything less than the most severe storm likely to occur once in every 250 years. The work finished so far is only enough to protect the area from the worst storm expected about every 70 years. Completion of the project has been delayed time and again by funding shortfalls and environmental regulation
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